The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-06-23
shins 10 s..mplify instead Of stra,nins and

thing. 70 sxsmplify instead Of strsinins and
The statue Of the Reading Girl By vela, 1
believe-who wae merely . girl reading .
book In chair-did moro to fevolutloniSe-
tufs of the English than any other thing.
We felt the same thing Ia the old Hall Of
Representatives at Warrington when some
sculptor Get there among the standinR pos
ing, attitudiniaing figures Robert Fulton
in his shirt sleeves, sitting In chair or upon
. stool, studying the model Of his steam
boat.
Peabody, Girard and Johns Hopkins had
reeemblances Of method and Of inner
thinking.
All were uneloquent, undemonstrative
men, not giving away. much while they
lived, but rather noted for their parsimony.
II. heard stories . in London , about Peabody
pested to me about Hopkins in Baltimore
fifteen years later; 90 I suppose that both
sets of tales belong to that array of gratui-
tous lying which town goesips indifferently
mistake Tor religious motive or for imagi-
nation.
When great man giyes snything-a book,
property as far as folly and familiarity can
80, paying the penalty Of the sacrificing one
TO The silly many. Apelles or Phidias
made statue and Q shoemaker was heard
to yawp that 1t was too long in the heel,
whreupon the sculptor, hearing 9 second
criticism. from the same sourcs, let fly q
maxim that is nearly immortal.
So we may say to those who never give
but are free with their opinion:
stick TO your muck, old tongue-wagger
Thy wealth will never shine"
There Is slight tendency in the great
philanthropist and endower toward unsoci-
ability: Am,;iaoility never gives much much
coming to borrow. You dam up . stream
before you can make it turn . mile. And
how this daily world might irritate . man
who was secretly meditating great benefi.
cence for 1t Rich men see the meanest Of
human nature, while human nature thinks
It sees the meanest of all in rich men. The
person who has failed to meet his note, and
therefore is behind in his solemn promise,
thinks his rich creditor il very mean not to
renew it, forgetting that II all debtors did the
same there could be no rich men at all. :.
Girard and Peabody and Hopkins had all
an ideal beginning; in the first was the
idealism Of Rousseau, the greatest Of believers,
world could be made Heaven. Living among
Quakers, he had the moral courage to name
his ships Montesquieu, Helvetius Voltaire,
Rousseau, and he gave them to the storms.
Dying, too, he forbade sectarianism to pass
the portals Of his orphan house. Some say
Nc was An luuOel VINO says tn6C 0AS no Wc-
tonary. The orphans come and 60, like
Girard sships, unharmed by the thunderbolt,
every one sermon that can act. That which
made the French revolution the greatest era
of Europe also made Girard.
Peabody came from land Of general edu-
cation and Of domestic Independence. He
saw in the South the general want of school
facilities for the poor and in London the
need of decent homes for artisans. In the
spirit of his forerunner, Count Rumford, he
threw his little fortune in the two great ere
vases, and also left some souvenirs of old
times to places like Baltimore where he had
matured. Why should this man give &c
much and his old Marylan banker partners
give nothing? fear that philanthropy Il
not an original thing, but comes out Of Ger
tain state Of society, where 1t is everybody'i
business to promote the general good.
Baltimore always reminds me, along thu
wharves, Of the Liverpool and Bristol Of th'
eighteenth century, Its warehouses, in
stead Of open piers, show the close, persona
processes by which wealth was then made
Some day the quays will be broader. Th'
city as It grows westward grows gentler, bu
in the old parts stay traces of that day wher
Baltimore was the young giant of the land
and made old Samuel Rhodes, of Philadel
phia, write to DR.. Franklin:
"The growth of Baltimore town makes u
apprehensive that we may yet be reduced t,
the condition Of old Chester, or Newcastle
on the Delaware"
GEoRaE ALFRED TOWNSEND.